GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from the 7th to the 12th of July 2008. The conference will bring together the GNOME development and user community and key personalities from businesses and governments, to discuss the future direction of the GNOME project.

The call for participation in the conference is now open, and will close on March 30th. A variety of presentations and session can be proposed. “Emerging GNOME trends set the dialog at GUADEC. It was Online Desktop last year, and GNOME Mobile the year before that.” said the program chair, Behdad Esfahbod (that would be me), “We are excited to see what the community brings to GUADEC this year.”

Something we are doing differently this year is that we are accepting technical keynote proposals. If you have a great talk in mind, propose it as keynote! We'll just downgrade it to regular talk if need be. Now go work on your proposals!